Unconscious-bias training is crude umbrella term. My view: 1. HR-legal departments love it for virtue-signaling value; 2. Very-close-to-zero is best scientific guess of likely effect size on actual discrimination; 3. If it hasn’t arrived already, expect it in your workplace soon pic.twitter.com/kONJdbcWKu
— Philip E. Tetlock (@PTetlock) April 21, 2018
Great critique of unconscious-bias training by Tetlock
22 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Can You Resist an Unlawful Arrest?
22 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics
Chapple and Boston on benefit fraud
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform
Penni Ha’penny You have probably cherry-picked figures out of context. At any one time possibly 10% of beneficiaries ARE working full-time – on temporary jobs for a week or a month – and it has to be declared and no benefit received for those weeks. Temporary work is all some people can get. About a third aren’t looking for work? If true, this could well be the number of people who hav , in a governmental sleight of hand, been shifted from Sickness and Invalid Benefits onto Jobseeker with Medical Exemption – the dole, but with no requirement to look for work. Because you can’t work. Ridiculous system.

Anti-bias training is useless except as a defence strategy
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: implicit bias

Why The Cops Can’t “Just tase him”
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: tasers
Most economists now know their limits? @EricCrampton @TaxpayersUnion
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Wouldn’t these police investigations be the fruit of a poisonous tree?
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decriminalisation

How Harvey Weinstein’s Sexual Abuse Cover Up Fell Apart | The Backstory | The New Yorker
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, movies, television Tags: sexual harassment
Engaging with the Police When Openly Carrying a Firearm
18 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime Tags: gun control
Chris Rock was right about a lot of foot pursuits ending in violence; if you run, the police are bringing an ass whipping with them
17 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
Reacting to the Police When Carrying a Concealed Weapon
17 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: gun control


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